Scorpius giggles and, after planting a kiss on Lex's calf, gets up, dusts himself, and sits on the bed after all. Right in the middle, with space for a boy to each side.

"Lex is translating me a spell," Scorpius tells Edmund. "One of his books got him something pretty nasty that I'm sure I can get my affinity to count for more mal slaughter."

"Oh, you can translate too?" Edmund asks Lex, sitting down and appearing genuinely fascinated. "I thought that was more inventive than linguistics got."

"Well - when it's in-affinity," Lex says cautiously. "Mine's, uh, strong."

"...show me your notes?" Edmund asks. "I'll bet I can help out a bit."

"Alright."

Lex sits down, flips open his notebook, and starts showing Edmund his brainstorming.

Scorpius thinks this is a huge success. He's not sure what he's succeeding at but he is absolutely doing it.

As Edmund said, they don't really have a lot of time before dinner, and should get going pretty soon. And of course the school was already aware that Scorpius Lake had just spent a chunk of his work period cozied up to Edmund Pevensie and Lex Whatever-his-last-name-is and then the latter chunk with just Lex, and the school had seen Pevensie and Lake arrive at the cafeteria together at the end of breakfast earlier today, and they still somehow manage to be surprised by the three of them walking together from Pevensie's room to the cafeteria.

Outside of enclave tables, mixed-year tables aren't that common, other than the occasional loser kids hanging out around older loser kids for the extra safety. Being of the opinion that what's done or isn't done does not matter and he should be able to sit wherever he wants, Scorpius wants both of his boyfriends with him.

Yi Liu doesn't think to actually join their table until Lake himself waves her over, and then she does so, looking kind of uncertain. A trio of South African losers who sometimes share a table with Lex—two girls named Nkoyo and Cora and a boy called Jowani—also join, and soon enough this becomes Loser Table plus Scorpius Lake and Edmund Pevensie.

It's weird. But nice. At least Liu thinks it's nice.